If you were planning a party for the National Federation of Republican Women in South Carolina, what would you do? Well, of course, you would throw a Confederate costume party! And what kind of Confederate costume party is it, really, without a few black people there dressed as slaves!
Oh, my god:
The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend – a decision the organization is likely regretting after several controversial pictures from one of the meeting’s sponsored events began surfacing on the internet.
One of the pictures shows S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell – who FITS readers will recall enjoys dressing up as a Confederate General – posing in his Rebel garb with a pair of African-Americans dressed in, um, “antebellum” attire.
The event in question – dubbed “The Southern Experience” – was held last Friday evening at the Country Club of Charleston. Hosted by the South Carolina Federation of Republican Women, it was included on the national conference’s official itinerary.
In addition to McConnell, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford attended (and spoke at) the event – although it was not listed on his weekly public schedule. S.C. Republican Attorney General nominee Alan Wilson also attended.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
And here’s Mark Sanford!
Don’t call them racists, though!
They don’t like it.
[h/t Bob Cesca]
I AM SPEECHLESS….
It’s odd that there are *many* anti-gay comments on the article, and nobody’s saying anything about it. Apparently the state senate president Glenn McConnell (the guy dressed in the uniform) is suspected of being gay. I wonder what he does for or against gay causes in South Carolina.
I like gay jokes as much as the next guy, but one commenter just calls him a faggot, which doesn’t seem all that humorous or imaginative.
:: jaw drops to the floor with an audible thud ::
I feel like comments #1 & #3. I’m speechless and my jaw has dropped to the floor and I can’t pick it up. This is just so wrong in so many ways…I’d love to know if those dressed as slaves were paid (substantially well) or how they themselves could have thought this was alright. And the Republicans don’t want us to call them RACISTS…
Dan at 4 said, “I’d love to know if those dressed as slaves were paid (substantially well)” … and I was thinking, am I supposed to believe that these two African-American people are on the Board of Directors of NFRW? I mean, seriously, how does this happen?
Uh, reading that over I’m not sure it came out the way I meant it to. I meant either: how does it happen that any executive board, let alone one with black members, fails to notice that this is ridiculously awful-looking, OR how does it happen that an executive board with zero black members finds a couple black people they are able to convince to dance around for their amusement?
NFQ: One of two things, the second of which is more likely.
1. Self-hating black Republicans, taking their self-hatred to Dan Blatt, Western Gay Patriot levels.
2. Hired to do a job, like the black people who are like, the only black people at Teabagger rallies, selling s**t to the less-ambulatory crowd who shows up at those things.
The African-Amercians were dedicated Gullah reenactors, and there is no indication at all that they were Republicans. In my opinion, they made an error in judgement by appearing at that event, but it’s not really my place to judge that. Accusing them of being “self-hating black Republicans” is a bit beyond the pale, in my opinion, and based on nothing but bias against those with whom one does not agree.
As for the gay, comments, some were beyond the pale as well, but when doesn’t that happen in comments on political blogs. I’m sure it never happens here, right? In my own comments I made it clear that in my somewhat mild remarks alluding to his supposedly being gay, I was falling back on my liberal Democrat roots … gay Republicans have long been declared fair game for all manner of abuse, and I’m not sure they don’t deserve that.
The Tea Party comments may be another matter. In South Carolina, at least, it’s clearly NOT the Tea Party groups that are the most racist in the GOP. Apparently, other than Sanford who is somewhat alligned with the movment, there was no Tea Party involevement at all. It’s the unreconstructed Dixicrat Good Old Boys who comprise the authritarian mainstream of the party who are most likely to be involved in something like that, and let’s remember that it is a NATIONAL, MAINSTREAM GOP GROUP that the party was for.
The Tea Party groups in SC backed and voted for Nikki Haley, a non-white female as their candidate for Governor, thus making history in the state. If she wins, as it looks as though she will, she will make national history as well, since there has never been a non-white female Governor in the US, to my knowlege. The GOP mainstream in this state vehemently opposed her, questioned her Christian faith, and called both her and Obama “ragheads”. The only real attempt at an argument that this doesn’t suggest a lack of racial animus on the part of the tea party, and the abundance of it with mainstream Repugs was the contention that Sihk Indians, of which Haley is one, are racists themselves and look down on all other races. Hmmmmm … doesn’t pass the smell test at all, that one.
The REAL story that the mainstream press keeps missing in South Carolina is ALL ABOUT the oppressive, corrupt and authoritarian nature of the Republican establisment, at least in SC … and NOT about the reform-minded “Tea Baggers”.
To all who may be visiting the fresh hell of FITSNews for the first time due to stories on this admittedly amusing story, I hope that you’ll also look into a long-simmering and far more serious scandal that might just bring down a good-sized chunk of the leadership of the SC GOP. That is, unless Obama decides he needs Lindsay Graham’s moderate votes in the Senate too much going forward to let DOJ indict the perps on RICO charges.
It’s a clear-cut case of corruption, cover-up and pay-to-play crony captitalism if there ever was such a thing, perpetrated by SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS (HELLO!!!!) ALONG WITH SOME DEMOCRATS … with the GOP stalwarts of the state alleged to be involved including Katon Dawson, Gresham Barrett, Mark Kelly, Hugh Leatherman and J. Warren Tompkins. And I wouldn’t be AT ALL surprised if “The General” didn’t have quite a hand in it as well.
Do check it out, y’all …
FBI, IRS Investigate Coastal Campaign Finance Scam
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/07/15/fbi-irs-investigate-coastal-campaign-finance-scam/
More on Coastal Campaign Finance Scandal
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/07/24/more-on-coastal-campaign-finance-scandal/
Horry Corruption Expands
http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/08/13/horry-corruption-expands/
Who is the cracker with that stupid confederate get-up and yellow teeth?
Thanks for the post Boz, and the acknowledgment about the comments on The Gays. I sincerely appreciate that you support gay causes. I’m from South Carolina myself, left about 20 years ago.
Some of the jokes were actually funny, but some of it was mean-spirited and ignorant. The fact that it’s coming from “progressives” is disheartening.
Honestly, the anti-gay rhetoric from SC sounds worse now than it did then. Maybe it’s only because I’m not soaking in it any more, but I don’t think that’s it. I think it’s actually gotten worse. It makes South Carolina sound bad.
Well that is profoundly weird…
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